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...were murdered and all but one horribly disemboweled by perhaps the most famous uncaught murderer of all time, Jack the Ripper. According to an article published this week in The Criminologist, a British professional journal of police science, Jack may have gone uncaught, but his identity was known to Scotland Yard: "He was the heir to power and wealth. His grandmother, who outlived him, was very much the stern Victorian matriarch . . . His father, to whose title he was the heir, was a gay cosmopolitan and did much to improve the status of England internationally...
...clue suggesting that Jack was really "S," an eminent personage, was the curious manner in which police dealt with the 1888 murder cases. When Sir Charles Warren, the Scotland Yard chief, arrived at one of the murder-mutilation scenes, he ordered that writing chalked on a nearby wall-presumably by the killer-be erased. Jack, Stowell believes, was certified insane and was quietly placed in a private mental home -although he later escaped and committed his last and most horrible murder, that of a prostitute named Mary Jane Kelly. He cut her throat, obliterated her face, removed her liver, heart...
Died. George Smith, 65, Britain's top spy catcher, Detective Superintendent of Scotland Yard's Special Branch until 1963; of a heart attack; in Bath, England. Part of a team working with Military Intelligence (M.I.5), Smith built a reputation as a tracker of Nazi parachutists and saboteurs in World War II. In the shadow world of peacetime espionage, he put the finger on Atomic Spy Allan Nunn May in 1946 and Klaus Fuchs in 1950. But the most celebrated coup of his 35-year career was the unraveling in 1961 of a Soviet network headed by Spy Chief...
...said the charges were unconnected with the robbery. The letter of complaint was mailed to Friedman the day before the holdup. The complaint charged "gross negligence and malfeasance" involving a statement he made to students last spring urging them to throw dirt and mud on acting president Charles I. Scotland...
Until three centuries ago, before the great clans were broken and the brutal clearance policies of the late 1700s forced Highlanders to emigrate and make way for sheep, every McPhee in the world lived on a tiny island 25 miles off the western coast of Scotland. Among them were the ancestors of John McPhee, an American writer who has been responsible for several fine books of reportage, including last year's tennis classic, Levels of the Game. All his life McPhee had heard about Colonsay. In the spring of 1967, taking his family along, he finally went there...